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SPECIES Tragelaphus spekii
Author: | Speke, 1863. | Citation: | Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile: p. 223 (footnote). | Common Name: | Sitatunga | Type Locality: | Tanzania, Karagwe, E of Lake Victoria, at a lake named "Little Windermere" by Speke; identified as Bukoba district, Lake Lwelo, 2°S, 30°57'E by Moreau et al. (1946:441). | Distribution: | Disjunct. Swamps in Gambia, W Guinea, Guinea Bissau, and S Senegal; not authentically recorded from Sierra Leone and doubtfully recorded from Côte d’Ivoire (Grubb et al., 1998). Rainforest and swamps in C and E Angola, S Benin, N Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad (Lake Chad only), Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea (Mbini), Gabon, SE Ghana, W Kenya, Mozambique (W Tete Prov. only), NE Namibia (Caprivi Strip only), Niger (Lake Chad only; extinct), S Nigeria (and Lake Chad), Republic of Congo, Rwanda, S Sudan, W and NW Tanzania, Togo (extinct?), Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe (extreme NW). Occurrence in Ghana only recently confirmed (East, 1998). | Status: | CITES – Appendix III (Ghana); IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | Comments: | Speke (1863) described and illustrated the 'nzoé' or 'water-boc' and reported in a footnote that Sclater had named the species Tragelaphus Spekii [sic], but this is insufficient to make Sclater the author of the name (Article 50.1.1, International Code of Zoological Nomenclature; International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1999). Subspecific systematics from Ansell (1972:22). |
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